New York Bitcoin Miners Are Buying Up Power Plants—and Communities Are Fighting Back

Inside Climate News · By Lauren Dalban · last updated May 10, 2025 – 1:03 AM

Local laws, moratoriums and lawsuits are curbing the expansion of bitcoin mines in New York. But what about the ones already operating?

By Lauren Dalban

New York is home to four of the largest bitcoin mines in the country, which consume huge quantities of electric power and water to cool their server farms, emit loud humming noises around the clock and flood the atmosphere with copious greenhouse gases and pollutants.

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